The 14th International Workshop on
Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems - JTRES 2016
Part of the
Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2016
Lugano, Switzerland
::Motivation::
Over 90% of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and
embedded applications. Embedded devices are deployed on a broad
diversity of distinct processor architectures and operating
systems. The application software for many embedded devices is
custom tailored if not written entirely from scratch. The size of
typical embedded system software applications is growing
exponentially from year to year, with many of today's embedded
systems comprised of multiple millions of lines of code. For all
of these reasons, the software portability, reuse, and modular
composability benefits offered by Java are especially valuable to
developers of embedded systems.
Both embedded and general purpose software frequently need to
comply with real-time constraints. Higher-level programming
languages and middleware are needed to robustly and productively
design, implement, compose, integrate, validate, and enforce
memory and real-time constraints along with conventional
functional requirements for reusable software components. The Java
programming language has become an attractive choice because of
its safety, productivity, its relatively low maintenance costs,
and the availability of well trained developers.
::Goal::
Interest in real-time Java by both the academic research
community and commercial industry has been motivated by the need
to manage the complexity and costs associated with continually
expanding embedded real-time software systems. The goal of the
workshop is to gather researchers working on real-time and
embedded Java to identify the challenging problems that still need
to be solved in order to assure the success of real-time Java as a
technology and to report results and experience gained by
researchers.
The Java ecosystem has outgrown the combination of Java as
programming language and the JVM. For example, Android uses Java
as source language and the Dalvik virtual machine for execution.
Languages such as Scala are compiled to Java bytecode and executed
on the JVM. JTRES welcomes submissions that apply such approaches
to embedded and/or real-time systems.
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